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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dishonest \Dis*hon"est\, adjective [Pref. dis- + honest: cf. F. d['e]shonn[^e]te, OF. deshoneste.]
1. Dishonorable; shameful; indecent; unchaste; lewd. [Obs.]
Inglorious triumphs and dishonest scars. --Pope.
Speak no foul or dishonest words before them [the women]. --Sir T. North.
2. Dishonored; disgraced; disfigured. [Obs.]
Dishonest with lopped arms the youth appears, Spoiled of his nose and shortened of his ears. --Dryden.
3. Wanting in honesty; void of integrity; faithless; disposed to cheat or defraud; not trustworthy; as, a dishonest man.
4. Characterized by fraud; indicating a want of probity; knavish; fraudulent; unjust.
To get dishonest gain. --Ezek. xxii. 27.
The dishonest profits of men in office. --Bancroft.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Dishonest \Dis*hon"est\, verb (used with an object) [Cf. OF. deshonester.] To disgrace; to dishonor; as, to dishonest a maid. [Obs.]
I will no longer dishonest my house. --Chapman.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
dishonest
adjective
1: deceptive or fraudulent; disposed to cheat or defraud or deceive [syn: {dishonorable}] [ant: {honest}]
2: lacking honesty and oblivious to what is honorable [syn: {unscrupulous}]
3: lacking truthfulness; "a dishonest answer"
4: capable of being corrupted; "corruptible judges"; "dishonest politicians"; "a purchasable senator"; "a venal police officer" [syn: {corruptible}, {bribable}, {purchasable}, {venal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
101 Moby Thesaurus words for "dishonest": Machiavellian, ambidextrous, amoral, artful, bent, casuistic, cheating, conscienceless, corrupt, corrupted, counterfeit, crafty, criminal, cronk, crooked, cunning, dark, deceitful, deceiving, deceptive, defrauding, devious, dishonorable, disingenuous, double, double-dealing, double-faced, double-minded, double-tongued, doublehearted, doubtful, dubious, duplicitous, empty, equivocal, evasive, faithless, fake, false, false-principled, falsehearted, felonious, fishy, forsworn, fraudulent, furtive, hollow, hypocritical, ill-got, ill-gotten, immoral, indirect, insidious, insincere, jesuitic, knavish, lying, mealymouthed, mendacious, not kosher, oblique, perfidious, perjured, prevaricating, questionable, roguish, rotten, shady, shameless, shifty, sinister, slippery, snide, suspicious, swindling, thieving, thievish, tongue in cheek, treacherous, tricky, truthless, two-faced, uncandid, unconscienced, unconscientious, unconscionable, underhand, underhanded, unethical, unfair, unfrank, unprincipled, unsavory, unscrupulous, unserious, unstraightforward, untrustworthy, untruthful, unveracious, without remorse, without shame
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